Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:54:20 +0100 From: Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI Logic Fibre Channel Card Message-ID: <448DAA4C.2030107@joeholden.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060612175242.GA16431@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <448B3E07.1090408@joeholden.co.uk> <20060612175242.GA16431@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:47:51PM +0100, Joe Holden wrote: > >> Hi Collective, >> I've recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 onto a >> machine, and attached a LSI Logic 919X FC Controller, after finally >> getting the card working, im having issues with GEOM. >> It's reporting a max size of 1tb, fdisk shows capacity as >> 999999MB(Basically it doesn't know). Everytime i press a key in >> sysinstall, it says my GEOM is incorrect. >> >> Any suggestions as how to go about getting the full 3.5TB? (I'm not >> familiar with SCSI) >> > > With i386 and amd64, you will need to boot off of another volume in > order to use a volume larger than 2TB because the only supported > partition type is MS-DOS MBR which has a 2TB limit. (You're also > apparently running up against limits in sysinstall, but that's fairly > immaterial) To use the volume at all, you will either need to install a > UFS file system on it directly or create a gpt partition table. > > -- Brooks > > HI there, thanks for the reply, I ended up splitting it into two volumes, about half each, seems to have solved the problem! Thanks, Joe [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEjapfdQJXshOm0ecRAlKeAKCKi+k7N2CdBmD3b1g47z1u1z0uxwCcDptC uXPxBYpVauvJpb2BW8d62wg= =w05k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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